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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Furisday, Fuirsday, n. Also: Fursday, Fuiresday, Fowresday, Forsday. [Var. of Thurisday; current in later dialect as Fuirsday.] Thursday.(a) a1400 Leg. S. xviii. 1149.
He leite that haly tyme ga by Til that shere furisday [ms. therisfurday] come nere a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 882.
Heire endis this contemplacoun of furisday 1510 Misc. Spald. C. V. 394.
Upon the fursday in the lawting in Kyrkwall 1533 Boece xiii. xiii. 528.
The feist of Corpus Cristi to be solempnit … the nixt furisday eftir the festiuite of the glorios trinite c 1550 Fam. Kilravock 217.
Your selff to be at Fordyce … one Furysday nixt be ten houris 1584 Acts III. 309/1.
Quhilk chekker [is] … to convene … everie tyisday and furisday in the efternone 1625 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 564.
That Tyisday and Furisday ilk ouk salbe imployit in grinding of malt 1626 Rep. Hist. MSS. I. 175.
A great number of the nobilitie mett heir on Wadnesday and Fursday last(b) 1565 Reg. Privy C. I. 373.
The day of trew, to be haldin upoun Fuirsday 1569 Ib. 673.
That he sall compeir … in the Tolbuyth of Elgin upoun fuirsday nixtocum 1591 Thanes of Cawdor 201.
xxiij day of September being Fuiresday 1629 Maxwell Mem. & Chart. II. 201.
Ordanit him swa to doe againe Fuirsday nixt 1648 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 143.
To warne all persones wha desyres to tak the landwart excyse that they come to the tolboothe on Fuirsday nixt(c) 1544 Corr. M. Lorraine 72.
The beschop … on Fowresday last was … past foret of the castle of Dombartan 1598 Stirling Ant. III. 312.
Forsday the xx day of Apreill
